## 1919

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TELEGRAM TO ALL PROVINCIAL FOOD COMMITTEES
OF PRODUCING PROVINCES

23 July 1919

For the purpose of establishing a uniform and proper order, the following is hereby communicated for your guidance: you have no right to fulfill any planned or unplanned requisitions except those from the People's Commissariat of Food and the Chairman of the Council of Defense. In the event your province is included in or located within a front zone, the right to present unplanned requisitions, in cases of extreme necessity for meeting urgent army needs, has been granted by a decree of the Council of People's Commissars to the Food Committee of the front. Apart from these strictly defined cases and apart from persons having special authorization from the People's Commissariat of Food, no one may issue orders or alter the system of fulfilling these orders. Inform all district food committees in your province of this, instructing them to follow strictly the present directive.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
Lenin

People's Commissariat of Food
Tsiurupa

*Published according to the original signed by V. I. Lenin and A. D. Tsiurupa.*

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## DECREE OF THE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE
23 JULY 1919

In the stubborn struggle for workers' and peasants' power, the valiant units of the IV Army, surrounded on all sides by an embittered enemy, endured a two-month siege in the city of Uralsk. Bearing deprivations and exposing their lives to constant danger, the defenders of Uralsk demonstrated an example of true devotion to the cause of revolution.

For the revolutionary military valor displayed, the Council of Defense declares special gratitude to the military units of the IV Army, the Red Army soldiers, and the commanding staff.

At the same time, taking into account that the defenders of Uralsk, surrounded on all sides by the enemy, for two months could not receive their established rations and provisions, as well as maintenance, and bore severe hardships, the Council of Defense decrees:

To pay the Red Army soldiers and commanding staff of the units of the IV Army that endured the two-month siege in the city of Uralsk wages in the amount of three months' pay for each month of the siege.

Chairman of the Council of Defense
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

*Published according to the original signed by V. I. Lenin.*

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## ON RED ARMY RATIONS
(FROM THE DECREE OF THE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE, 25 JULY 1919)

Taking into account the insufficient food reserves of the Republic and the necessity of expending them as carefully and rationally as possible, the Council of Workers' and Peasants' Defense, in development of the decree of 24 February of this year, decrees:

1. In accordance with Article 1 of the decree of 24 February 1919, the right to receive front-line Red Army rations is enjoyed by:

a) all Red Army soldiers, commanding staff, and administrative-economic staff of military units, staffs, administrations, institutions, and establishments forming part of divisions of the active army and subordinate thereto;

b) all Red Army soldiers, commanding and administrative-economic staff of reserve units subordinated to the field command of armies and fronts.

2. The right to receive rear-line Red Army rations is enjoyed by: